I'm calling it right now, this is going to be one of the hottest summers ever recorded. What we're seeing is a double armed pendulum. The large, slow, primary arm is the general temperature swing between seasons. The smaller, faster, secondary arm represents the local variations. What we've gone and done is add way more oil that is good to the secondary's pivot so the friction that would normally stabilize its erratic swings is lost. It is now free to swing wildly back and forth giving extreme weather variations. Once the big arm is firmly in summer territory, it won't surprise me at all if much if the country sees 110 and even 120 degree days.

Had a tiny tiny cabin about eight miles (and a hundred years) away from there.In the winter you can get windburn just walking from the car to the bar, about 150'.I presume it's about the same in NoDak as far as winter misery. Just thinner air.

Should've taken the money from the sale of the cabin and bought a hammock in the USVI-20/20 hindsight

hasty ambush:FatherDale: Who gives a rat's ass? The link on the page to the "plus sized" fat model was far more interesting. Warning: auto-start video. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/h038ms-size-model-jennie-runk-battles - back-wave-19200670